Most of us use websites every day. If you’re reading this, you’re using a website right now. Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc are all websites that started somewhere from scratch by someone who had the same idea as you do: “I want to make a website”. While most of us use websites everyday, there is a … Read more
WordPress remains one of the foremost popular, free, and open-source content management systems in the world, and powers a myriad of different sites from e-commerce businesses to personal blogs. Despite WordPress being very popular for businesses large and small, many WordPress website owners struggle with their site being slow. Ensuring that your WordPress website isn’t slow … Read more
Embedding Facebook content such as posts, videos, and photos can improve the quality of your content and increase engagement from readers on your WordPress website. You’re able to embed content from both Facebook business pages and public user posts. In order to embed content from Facebook, you need to become familiar with the new WordPress … Read more
DigitalOcean is a cloud computing company that gives you great control over the way your site operates, much more than traditional web hosts. With that said, there are a lot of advanced options included with DigitalOcean that will break your site if you’re not familiar with how it all works, so it’s important to make … Read more
WordPress can be super quick if you have it configured correctly, but usually what happens is that it gets bogged down over time by inefficiencies – so I wrote this to help you find out what could be slowing your site down, and how to go about fixing it. Little bit of a disclaimer: I have … Read more
Recently I ran into the issue where one of my WordPress websites was only allowing visitors to visit the homepage. Clicking on any other page inside the site resulted in a 404 Error hosted by BlueHost, my hosting provider, and the page would not load even after I reset my cache. If you run into … Read more
There are a few different SSL certificates available out there to apply to your website(s) to increase security and ensure your users that you’re legit. The highest (best) SSL certificate currently available is the Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificate, commonly referred to by webmasters as the “Green Bar” cert. It looks like this and you’ll probably … Read more
I use Wordfence as the plugin of choice when it comes to security for some of my WordPress websites. The tools works great, but it does have the annoying feature of enabling email alerts every time someone logs into your website, which can really clog up your email after a while. They probably look something … Read more
Contact Form 7 is a free plugin, designed to make it easy to send emails from your site. The plugin is updated quite often, and usually the changes break many websites in the process. The following issues outline common Contact Form 7 issues and the recommended solutions to overcome them. If you’d rather not deal … Read more
If you’re like me and run sites that make money primarily through Google AdSense or similar advertising platforms, it can be very frustrating that a portion of the users visiting the site circumvent the ads with ad blockers. As ad blocker adoption continues to grow year after year, it’s important to look into alternative solutions … Read more